From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBSw7ZobGVy?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:39:31 +0100 Message-ID: <513DECA3.3000304@online.de> References: <87ober717z.fsf@gmail.com> <513D7565.3080507@online.de> <1362984096.1644.1.camel@german-desktop> <513D89DE.5070302@online.de> <87wqtef68c.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363012750 12499 80.91.229.3 (11 Mar 2013 14:39:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:39:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Carsten Dominik , =?UTF-8?B?Ikdlcm3DoW4gXCJBLiBBcmlhc1wiIg==?= , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 11 15:39:32 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UF3sx-00068c-NO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:39:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37228 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UF3sb-0007mB-Ip for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:39:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48608) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UF3sW-0007lw-93 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UF3sP-00040Z-HI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:49331) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UF3sP-0003zG-1x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:38:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.21] (brln-4dbc4c93.pool.mediaWays.net [77.188.76.147]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lo6iD-1UhG190WPB-00gDKr; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:38:46 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 Thunderbird/17.0.3 In-Reply-To: <87wqtef68c.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:/R8xmI2b9BuhnMBgrpvVn1fz58wgMoXQEXfKSdygyT1 1Q8Oiw3YhLbVr+7tBRDzW5bK/cLh0NK89McL9NfEnMiCC/DBSZ QMqXH8yEruLfzwZKxlv1CW1QJ9FYJn5IG9K2Auo2kqYvlJyD80 ZFsL/ILwVzGkQIYfuqyDOzAymUaIOg3jyy+/bo+/2hKiWQW/QQ DZ61zcCYG/WNXERqyU6dxpqtFNmV+9B6/BJfhenPkUT2bG2O7i fFHwu+58P98xu6FogqniKWgLYqVJMoeR5X+j+KsIkAVV77alix zmqqvq/IQazYhdTv4UDN8SKTGqfJGH0tPIzWk8oBGpYrpPzose HrqI1eOGF4LPT08icE3XzxpfY5l/WqWsYGBXkr0B2 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.126.187 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157730 Archived-At: Am 11.03.2013 13:53, schrieb Stephen J. Turnbull: > Andreas Röhler writes: > > > Anyway, stressing the need of copyright assignment might spread the > > illusion, a free software project might require that procedure in > > order to distribute code. What the case at stake seems to > > demonstrate so far. > > Please, Andreas, you are completely off-base. [ ... ] Hi Stephen, let's mention a point not touched so far. Copyright makes sense with poems or story-telling maybe. A story lives by themselves. What does a line of code? It depends on thousands and millions other lines written by other people or even by machine. The founder-father of org-mode has already pointed at the multiple authorship of the file in question. Now what? Do we have several copyright-assignments aiming at the same file? We will have that, as all or many files have more than one author. With some exceptions it's impossible to maintain such a thing like authorship WRT to files. Cheers, Andreas